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What is Corpus Linguistics?
Author(s) -
Gries Stefan Th.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00149.x
Subject(s) - corpus linguistics , linguistics , annotation , text corpus , computer science , contrastive linguistics , markup language , applied linguistics , computational linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , world wide web , xml
Corpus linguistics is one of the fastest‐growing methodologies in contemporary linguistics. In a conversational format, this article answers a few questions that corpus linguists regularly face from linguists who have not used corpus‐based methods so far. It discusses some of the central assumptions (‘formal distributional differences reflect functional differences’), notions (corpora, representativity and balancedness, markup and annotation), and methods of corpus linguistics (frequency lists, concordances, collocations), and discusses a few ways in which the discipline still needs to mature.